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JC grame, also known as friends&, is a musician and blogger based in [[Toronto Canada|Toronto, Canada]]. Grame is notable for releasing the online "[[Cult following|cult]]" album ''Shadowdog'' (2015) under the name tirestires.{{Cite web |date=2026-02-23 |title=friends&'s 'folx' Is A Maximalist Manifesto About Folk Music, Capitalism, Family, Labor, The Internet, And More |url=https://stereogum.com/2490078/friendss-folx-is-a-maximalist-manifesto-about-folk-music-capitalism-family-the-internet-and-more/music/ |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=[[Stereogum]]}} He coined the term and music genre "[[laptop twee]]". It has been used to describe the work of acts like 300skullsandcounting, Worldpeace DMT, [[Bassvictim]], ASC, MASSI, [[Frost Children]] and [[Rowan Please]].{{Cite web |last=Hyland |first=Samuel |title=friends&: folx |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/friends-folx/ |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}{{Cite web |last=Press-Reynolds |first=Kieran |date=2025-12-17 |title=The Top Five Musical Rabbit Holes of 2025 |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-top-five-musical-rabbit-holes-of-2025/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}{{Cite web |date=2025-10-17 |title=Chasing Fridays: Bassvictim, laptop twee, Empty Shell Casing Q&A, more |url=https://www.elienis.com/chasing-fridays-bassvictim-laptop-twee-empty-shell-casing-interview-more/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=Chasing Sundays}}
JC grame, also known as friends&, is a musician and blogger based in [[Toronto Canada|Toronto, Canada]]. Grame is notable for releasing the online "[[Cult following|cult]]" album ''Shadowdog'' (2015) under the name tirestires.{{Cite web |date=2026-02-23 |title=friends&'s 'folx' Is A Maximalist Manifesto About Folk Music, Capitalism, Family, Labor, The Internet, And More |url=https://stereogum.com/2490078/friendss-folx-is-a-maximalist-manifesto-about-folk-music-capitalism-family-the-internet-and-more/music/ |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=[[Stereogum]]}} He coined the term and music genre "[[laptop twee]]". It has been used to describe the work of acts like 300skullsandcounting, Worldpeace DMT, [[Bassvictim]], ASC, MASSI, [[Frost Children]] and [[Rowan Please]].{{Cite web |last=Hyland |first=Samuel |title=friends&: folx |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/friends-folx/ |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}{{Cite web |last=Press-Reynolds |first=Kieran |date=2025-12-17 |title=The Top Five Musical Rabbit Holes of 2025 |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-top-five-musical-rabbit-holes-of-2025/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}{{Cite web |date=2025-10-17 |title=Chasing Fridays: Bassvictim, laptop twee, Empty Shell Casing Q&A, more |url=https://www.elienis.com/chasing-fridays-bassvictim-laptop-twee-empty-shell-casing-interview-more/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=Chasing Sundays}}


According to ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', "friends&" is also the name for a group of Canadian [[Discord]] members with grame at its core performing as "a semi-anonymous [[sampledelia]] band". ''[[The Guardian]]'' described the group as a "Canadian collective".{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Hugh |last2=Beaumont-Thomas |first2=Ben |date=2026-02-27 |title=Add to playlist: the cliche-correcting medieval music of Idrîsî Ensemble and the week’s best new tracks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/27/add-to-playlist-the-cliche-correcting-medieval-music-of-idrisi-ensemble-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The album was credited to them and released on [[Bandcamp]] on February 17, 2026, accompanied by liner notes and a manifesto written and published on [[Google Docs]]. The first line of the manifesto states that the album was "written after reading [[Capitalist Realism]] 300 times". The album is dedicated to grame's father, who according to grame was "an [[Autism|autistic]] [[Rate Your Music|rateyourmusic]] user who died before he could retire from his job at [[TD Bank (Canada)|td bank]]". Additionally, grame stated the record was conceived as "an attempt to reinvent [[pop music]] production".
According to ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', "friends&" is also the name for a group of Canadian [[Discord]] members with grame at its core performing as "a semi-anonymous [[sampledelia]] band". ''[[The Guardian]]'' described the group as a "Canadian collective".{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Hugh |last2=Beaumont-Thomas |first2=Ben |date=2026-02-27 |title=Add to playlist: the cliche-correcting medieval music of Idrîsî Ensemble and the week’s best new tracks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/27/add-to-playlist-the-cliche-correcting-medieval-music-of-idrisi-ensemble-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The album was credited to them and released on [[Bandcamp]] on February 17, 2026, accompanied by liner notes and a manifesto written and published on [[Google Docs]]. The first line of the manifesto states that the album was "written after bumping [[AJR]] and reading [[Capitalist Realism]] 300 times". The album is dedicated to grame's father, who according to grame was "an [[Autism|autistic]] [[Rate Your Music|rateyourmusic]] user who died before he could retire from his job at [[TD Bank (Canada)|td bank]]". Additionally, grame stated the record was conceived as "an attempt to reinvent [[pop music]] production".


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